These contemporaries do not include any science fiction or fantasy elements. With This Ring I Thee Dread features enemies who are forced to marry. What Nathan Wants features a hero who tricks the heroine into marrying him by proxy so he can have a child. Both have some comedic elements to them. Just Good Friends is about two best friends who pretend to be more to appease the heroine’s parents.

Substitute Bride is about two best friends who marry in order for the hero to inherit $1 million left in a relative’s will. Bride by Design is an anthology written under my pen name (Barbara Joan Russell) where my novella, Online Proposal, is about a woman who is going to meet the man she’s engaged to, but never met in person.